Hope you all are doing well! I am still here and (sort of ) podcasting, albeit slowly. New episodes should be coming really, really soon!

Featured Movies:

A History of Violence
Sin City
Oldboy

Some other movies I watched last week:
Dog Soldiers
Shrek
The Stepford Wives
Pitch Black

You can find more information about any of these films on IMDB or Wikipedia. If you need help finding specific information, please let me know and I will try to give you a hand!

Podcasting Help:

If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, but you're not sure where to start, here are a few resources you might find helpful-

Some helpful tutorials from Podcast 411.
Podbean, a free podcast host graciously pointed out to me by Sara of the SSK Podcast.
Libsyn- another podcast hosting service. It's not free, but it's cheap and I like it a lot.

Sorry for the looooong interval between Episode 7 coming out and the notes going up. Are they going to take away my Most Organized Podcaster of 2007 Award for this?

The contest for you to win my much loved copy of Oldboy ends 06/04/2007 so if you have any comments or emails to send, now is the time!

Now that I've finally put up the shownotes, I'm almost ready to put out a new episode! Talk to y'all soon!

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Featured Movies:

A Clockwork Orange
Children of Men
Starship Troopers

You can find more information about any of these films on IMDB or Wikipedia. If you need help finding specific information, please let me know and I will try to give you a hand!

Special thanks to Bob for being my guest on today's show, and for helping me with editing, sound effects, and post production.

No featured pattern for this episode, but if you're full of Spidey spirit with the U.S. release of Spiderman 3 this weekend, check out some of these cool spider themed knits I found :

The Spider Queen Shawl (Knitting Pattern and Kit)
a collection of spider stitch patterns from Knitting-And.com
Spider Web Sockies
a tiny double-knit spider (scare your friends and neighbors!)
crocheted spider

You can donate to help the victims and families affected by the tragedy at Virginia Tech here.

Sorry for the discombobulated nature of the show. It's mostly because I lost my outline and partially, I'm just a bad podcaster. No cookie!

See the Mother's Day afghan I'm crocheting and keep up with my crafting between podcasts at my blog.

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Featured Movies:

Trainspotting
Requiem for a Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

You can find more information about any of these films on IMDB or Wikipedia. If you need help finding specific information, please let me know and I will try to give you a hand!

Featured Pattern:

Psychedelic Squares Afghan
by Sarah Bradberry of Knitting-And.com

Also this week... I discovered a great online yarn shop called Sheep of a Different Color, where owner Sarah sells her hand-dyed dishcloth cotton for an extremely reasonable price. Check it out!

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If you haven't figured it out already, the podcast is going on hiatus for a little while until I'm over some of unpleasant symptoms of my pregnancy. It is really no fun trying to do a show when you feel like you might make a big mess on the keyboard at any moment. I'm around 12 weeks now, so hopefully I'll feel better any day and Film and Fiber will be back to your weekly scheduled rambling. Sorry I haven't posted any updates until now! Hope you're having a better month than I am!

Featured Movies:

Big Fish
Wizards
Pan's Labyrinth

You can find more information about any of these films on IMDB or Wikipedia. If you need help finding specific information, please let me know and I will try to give you a hand.

a funny thread about Big Fish on IMDB

Featured Pattern (or more accurately, featured pattern book):

Charmed Knits: Patterns for Fans of Harry Potter
by Alison Smith of The Blue Blog

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This week's Featured Movies are all the movies that were nominated for Best Picture this year at the Academy Awards:

Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

You can find more information about any of these films on IMDB or Wikipedia. If you need help finding specific information, please let me know and I will try to give you a hand.

Featured Pattern:

Top Down Raglan Cardi version 2.0 from the Cosmicpluto Knits blog

Miscellany:

This year's Nomiknittee's can be found on the Knit & Plenty blog.
You can check out my knitblog to see what I'm up to through the week, and for more info on the projects I talk about working on during the show.

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Thanks for listening and have a great week!

A promo for the Film and Fiber Podcast... just what you've always wanted! Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause! Now you can help support Film and Fiber by playing this on your podcasts, and possibly by blaring it from your stereo while sitting in rush hour traffic. Scares the muggles, you know.

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Featured Movies:

Jacob's Ladder
Directed by Adrian Lyne
IMDB article
Wikipedia article
Silent Hill, a videogame that I happen to be a fan of, which draws heavily on this film.
Buy the Movie
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge at Librivox

Memento
Directed by Christopher Nolan
IMDB article
Wikipedia article
Buy the Movie

Pi
Directed by Darren Aronofsky (I think I might have called him Darren Alfonksy at some point during the course of the episode. Sorry!)
IMDB article
Wikipedia article
Buy the Movie
Listen to the Math4Knitter's podcast, which won't hurt your head like this movie!

Featured Project:

Cashmere Moebius Cowl by Cat Bordhi
Buy a kit for the Cowl
What the heck is a Moebius? (What's the plural of Moebius? Mobeii? Moebius's? If you know, please rescue me from my ignorance!)
The pattern for the cat bed that I mentioned, Kitty Pi, which is not a Moebius but related to Pi. Come to think of it, this is truly ideal movie knitting, from cast on to cast off. From the perpetually wonderful Wendy Knits blog.

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Featured Movies:

Love Me If You Dare
Directed by Yann Samuell
Buy the Movie

Like Water for Chocolate
Directed by Alfonso Arau
Buy the Movie

Chasing Amy
Directed by Kevin Smith
Buy the Movie
(Lucky you can buy the Criterion edition at Amazon for 14.99, which is quite a bargain IMO.)

Featured Project:

Heart Pillow from knit.1 Winter 2006/2007

FO pic from the knit.1 blog

The Spring 2007 issue comes out February 14, so you have a few more days to buy the Winter issue on newstands. After that, I first suggest checking your LYS to see if they have any back issues for sale. If they don't, you can call Vogue Knitting toll free at 877-860-6164 to inquire about purchasing a back issue from them.

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